Our research provides interdisciplinary but engineering-centric solutions to enhance the resilience and sustainability of a community’s built environment, including building portfolios, transportation systems and utility networks. Our projects support community resilience planning through a variety of studies at different scales: natural hazard modeling, response estimation of individual structures and engineered facilities, performance quantification of building portfolios and lifeline networks, pre-hazard event mitigation planning and post-event recovery optimization. We emphasize a system perspective, and the need to embrace uncertainty and to communicate risk between different disciplines. We focus our research on the following aspects:

Developing science-based measurement tools to evaluate performance and resilience of the built environment at community scales;

Interfacing hazard modeling at community or regional scales with damage and functionality loss assessment of the community built environment;

Propagating uncertainties from spatial and temporal modeling of hazard demands to resilience quantification of community built environment, to inform risked-based decisions and community resilience planning;